Saturday Veg’Zoom – Spinach

Have you ever tried the Greek spinach pie? Well it is one of my favorite Greek foods along with many other things; it was also Pope’s favorite food: spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is native of central and southwestern Asia but today it is mainly cultivated in Europe and Noth America. The most famous in Greece is the spinach “Princess Julianna”, the short spinach and Broadleaf from Argos. The worldwide spinach production represents roughly 18.1 million tons of spinach annually where the first two producers are China (16 million tons) and America (335 mm tons)[1]. Greece produces about 56 thousand tons per year. It is quite easy to cultivate it in the garden or even on your balcony.